Vehicle-brake



(No Model.)

W.'F. ROCHESTER.

VEHICLE BRAKE.

Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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XVILLIAM F. ROCHESTER, OF HICKORY FLAT, MISSISSIPPI.

VEHICLE-BRAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,394, dated November 2'7, 1888.

Appicalion filed September 17, 1888. Serial No. 2.83.648. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beitknown that LWILLIAM F. Roonns'rna, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Hickory Flat, in the county of Benton and State of J J are long guide-staples,having their downwardly-turned arms secured to the hounds, which staples extend over the brake'bar and retain it down on the hounds.

its shank secured Mississippi, have invented new and useful Im- K. is adetenthook having provements in Vehicle-Brakes, of which the to the middle of the upper side of the brakefollowing is a specification. bar and extending frontwardly therefrom. Ihe invention relates to improvements in Ihe said hook has an upturned point, 70, vehicle-brakes, being arranged to act autoadapted to engage in the loop I, thereby prero matically when thevehicle runsforward toward venting the draft-bar E from sliding rearwar the animal or when the latter backs, as in gofar enough to bring the shoes to bear on the ing downhill; and it consists in the construcfront wheels. tion and novel combination of parts hereinaf- When the shoes are brought in contact with ter described, illustrated in the accompanying the wheels, they may be retained so, if desiradrawings, and pointed out in the appended ble or necessary, by turning down the loop I claims. in front of the point of the hook.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a per- When usingoxen or draft-animals, the yoke spective view of a vehicle provided with the of the team, or of the rear team, when two are brake mechanism embodying the invention. used, is attached to the draft-hook H and the Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the same with in h inserted in the openings h h. To use the brake-shoes held out of contact with the horses as draft-animals,singletrees of ordinary wheels. Fig. 3 represents a similar view with construction must be attached to the ends of the brake-shoes held in contact with the wheels. the brake-bar, which then acts as a doubletree. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of Fig. 2. It is evident that when the loop I is turned 2 5 Referring to the drawings by letter, A desfrontward, should the vehicle run forward toignates the front hounds of a vehicle, such as ward the animals, as might occur in going a wagon; B, the front axle, having the front downhill, the wheels b will be forced upon wheels, b b, journaled at its ends; and O, the the brake-shoes and the motion thereby inlhead-block. peded. The brake will be applied also when D is the tongue standing forward from the the animals back and be released when they junction or apex of the hounds A, and having again begin to pull, as when starting uphill, secured to its lower surface the shank of the so that the motions of the animals properly apdraft-hook d, which preferably bends upward, ply and release the brakes. To back the veas shown. A whiffletree may be attached to hicle freely, the hook K must first be engaged 5 said draft-hook,ifmore than one team of draftby the loop I, as described.

animals are to be attached to the vehicle. Having described my invention, I claim- E is the draft-bar of the brake lying upon 1. In avehicle, the combination of the front the tongue, and having the transverse brakei hounds, the front axle, the front wheels, the bar F secured to its rear end, brake-shoes G tongue running frontward from said hounds,

o G,of suitable construction,being secured to the and the draft-hook d, standing frontward from ends of said brake-bar facing the wheels. Ihe the end of the tongue, of the guide and retaindraft-bar E has secured to its front ends the ing staples J, the transverse brake-bar passupwardly and rearwardly extending drafting under said staples, the brake-shoes on t e hook H, pivoted with the vertical openings h ends of said bar, the draft-bar standing front h for the insertion of a retaining-pin, h, and ward from the brake-bar an lying on t e having the depending arm h", provided with a i tongue, and the draft-hook H, secured to he guide perforation, h, for the insertion of the front end of said draft-bar and provided with shank of the drafthook d in front of the tongue. at depending perforated guide arm, h that I is a retaining and guide loop,with its outrides on the shank of the draft-hook d, subwardly-bent ends journaledin bearings 3, sestantially as specified.

cured to the hounds, which loop straddles the 2. In a vehicle, the combination, with the draft-bar, E, and also guides the same. front wheels, the brake'bar, the brake-shoes secured to the ends of said bar, and the draftsituated that it prevents the shoes from engagbar extending" l'rontward from the brake-bar, ing the wheels when it is engaged over the ol' the hook .l\'. secured to the brake-bar, and pointol'said hook and keeps the shoes engaged the loop I, arranged to engage the said hook, on the wheels when it bears on the front of the 5 and thereby prevent the brake'shoe from onhook, substantially as specified.

gaging the wheels, substantially as specified. In testimony thatIelaim theforegoing as my 'cle, the combination, with the own Ihave hereto affixed my signature in presfront wheel, the bi'akebar, the brake-shoes seonce of two witnesses.

enred lo'tho ends oi said bar, and the dratt- WILLIAM F. fl'tOCllESTER. [O bill'SOCllI'Pd to the brake-bar, and extemling \Vitnesses:

thence l'rontward upon the tongue, ofthe hook P. O. G'A1)J), K, seemed to the brake bar, and a loop, 'l', so I \V. E. CRUM. 

